Personality and Following Your Dreams

Dear Marge:

...You remember how I felt when you took this position. Two years tops. I said that because an extended stay in an entry level position means that your pay relatively decreases over the years, and too often also, so does your satisfaction with the position. Periodic change, is how you grow. Be true to these life realities, and you will be happy.

As you say, you will probably always be kinda slow to act--that's a part of your personality. But slowness does not preclude success or the exercise of your wisdom. Just do what you have to do when you have to do it.

Let me offer you something else. You may not realize this right now, but presently [as a single adult] you are in the most flexible and exploitable stage of life that you will ever know. I want for you that you flex your creativity and exploit your uniqueness. You were excited about a particular industry when you started this job. I think it's time to follow that dream.

Because you are having a not-so-easy time switching jobs after interviewing over the years, consider that you might be looking in the wrong places. When you get excited about something, you inspire people. Dust off your dreams, get excited and do nothing except what moves you in that direction. Don't buy real estate, don't look for a man, don't look for another boring job. Don't' sign up for another event or buy any more clothes that advance the same old holding pattern. Move in the direction that excites you. ...NOW.

It is important to see the value in this concept. Sometimes, people get attached to routines and mislabel the routine as God's peace. Instead, there is a fire inside you, that yearns to have its way. Your fire is what makes you the unique pleasure to God that you are. However, some discredit really seeing and knowing oneself this way. Perhaps they think that only a few get to experience a life of excitement and passion and purposefulness. May we know the BIG happy God in heaven, and get a true glimpse of what we should be like.

Only one more something else. More than anyone, we should know that the life of a man passes quickly. We are but a breath, it says in Isaiah. Despite this, we allow an experience of life wrought with insignificant activity. Instead of making joyful noises to the Lord, we credit more the noises we render as sacrifices than the noises we make while we are happy. On this day, September 21, 2006, you should commence your plodding to the place in life you were created to occupy. Go as slow as you want, but do nothing else!